I should be very sorry to admit that a robust and well-disposed young man need ever despair.

Morris looked some moments at the sanded floor of the shop; he seemed to be disposed to linger a moment.

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It must be added that though she had the expectation of a fortune—Dr. Sloper for a long time had been making twenty thousand dollars a year by his profession, and laying aside the half of it—the amount of money at her disposal was not greater than the allowance made to many poorer girls.

"Oh, I’m so glad!" she said; and now, for a moment, she was disposed to throw herself on Aunt Lavinia’s neck.

Between the fear of losing Catherine and her possible fortune altogether, and the fear of taking her too soon and finding this possible fortune as void of actuality as a collection of emptied bottles, it was not comfortable for Morris Townsend to choose; a fact that should be remembered by readers disposed to judge harshly of a young man who may have struck them as making but an indifferently successful use of fine natural parts.